Janet Brien's photos with the keyword: skeletalmess

4 more pictures in notes above! (the picture of coins has two other versions to see if visit) I love it when Thursday rolls around because I get to participate in the Bokeh Thursday Challenge! :D This week's theme is "Coins", which had me bouncing up and down because I've been wanting to take some pictures of our leftover foreign coins for a while! We keep our odd coins in a box in the bedroom and of course I took my parrot, Pumpkin, out of her cage to help supervise! I let her romp around on the bed while I looked over the loot, and she was having such a good time that I decided to bring the camera and flash upstairs and let her play on the bed while I took pictures. We went downstairs together, she on a finger, laughing as we walked down the stairs, and then she made silly wine-cork noises at the strange stuff I was carrying back upstairs with me! While I took pictures, she proceeded to walk around on our comforter, making "chicken tracks" all over the soft plush blanket. This is so funny to see, but I couldn't get any pictures that showed how cute the footprints look, boo! Even though I was taking pictures of coins, I kept an eye on Pumpkin at all times while she played. She didn't want to have anything to do with the camera equipment, but instead busied herself by hanging off the side of the bed and chortling happily at me. She also crawled through a tunnel I made for her under the comforter and I snickered as I heard her making funny croaking sounds as she investigated her private clubhouse. I peeked over the edge of the bed at one point and found her making "creaking" sounds as she stared intently at a place where two pieces of wood came together, forming a crack. She loves cracks. They make her laugh! :D I finally finished taking pictures and gathered up my darling girl, covering her with kisses and telling her how much I love her. And as I plopped a treat into her food cup and swung her in a wide arc into her cage, she squealed happily, "WHEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!" That's my girl. Best little friend in the whole, wide world!!!! Texture used in this image: Netherworld TOTD # 128 by Jerry Jones (SkeletalMess on Flickr) Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American author, political activist, and lecturer. She was the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. The story of how Keller's teacher, Anne Sullivan, broke through the isolation imposed by a near complete lack of language, allowing the girl to blossom as she learned to communicate, has become widely known through the dramatic depictions of the play and film The Miracle Worker. Her birthday on June 27 is commemorated as Helen Keller Day in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and was authorized at the federal level by presidential proclamation by President Jimmy Carter in 1980, her 100th birthday. Wikipedia: Helen Keller Explored on August 22, 2013. Highest placement, page 2 (#40).

1 more picture in a note above! :) Ever since I got the hang of working with textures, I've found myself wanting to use them whenever I have an excuse! One of the only things I didn't like about moving from Flickr was losing the wealth of texture groups there, along with the thousands of amazing images to use, free of charge. However, I did find a nice texture group on ipernity, and after I posted a picture last night that used a texture I found there, I was told that a hugely popular texture artist had moved most of his textures here to ipernity!! Known as "Skeletal Mess" on Flickr (among other names), Jerry Jones has a seemingly bottomless pit of creative and awesome textures and other cool stuff to use with images. He generously allows anyone to use his artwork, provided they don't steal and repost as their own, etc. With people like Jerry, KaySeeArr and the many other creative and generous folks here at ipernity, there is absolutely no reason to both with Flickr anymore!! HOORAY! After looking at some of Jerry's textures, I was so excited that I ended up using three of them for pictures today! My Picture of the Day is one, this is another, and my other poppy picture has one too! THANK YOU JERRY!!! :D Texture used in this image: OldPhoto1 by Jerry Jones (SkeletalMess on Flickr)

Poppies are so beautiful with droplets on them, and this lovely blossom has such bright yellow pollen all on the stamens! I added some texture to the background: thanks to Jerry Jones for Fire Damage 10-21-09 TOTD # 87